China Again Convicts Rights Advocate

Posted on December 2, 2006 10:21 PM | | Comments (0)

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
December 01, 2006

A blind Chinese legal expert who exposed forced abortions in eastern China was convicted on Friday morning for the second time on charges that he destroyed property and disrupted traffic.

The case of Chen Guangcheng, the legal expert, has provoked international concern, as his defense lawyers have argued that officials in Shandong Province arrested him on baseless charges as punishment for his activism against abuses of population control policies.

Mr. Chen was convicted in August but won a rare retrial after an appeals court overturned the conviction. The retrial was held this week in Shandong, and a local judge announced the verdict on Friday morning, lawyers said. Mr. Chen was again found guilty and given the same sentence, of four years and three months.

The retrial has been marred by apparent official efforts at intimidation. Mr. Chen’s wife was kept under close police supervision during the trial.

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